'The town which makes up this chapelry is in two parishes, that part where the chapel stands is in Grasmere parish, the other and greater part in Windermere parish. 5 miles from that church; chapel 3 miles from Grasmere. Town very populous...' , L.A.S. Butler, ed., The Cumbria Parishes, 1714-1725, from Bishop Gastrell's Notitia, with additions by Bishop Porteus, 1778-1779, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Record Series, vol. 12 (1998), p.110.